Glue Ear Awareness.

WHY GLUE EAR AWARENESS? Category: Life
I have set out on my mission to bring about heightened awareness of Glue Ear. After battling with the health and education system for the last four years to try and get appropriate help for my son, things are quietening down at last. But the effects on him, not only of the condition, but of lack of correct intervention and treatment will be with him for a long time. There is no appropriate program of help for children with glue ear and professionals try to label the children as on the autistic spectrum either out of ignorance or in order to get some help, a kind of help that is totally irrelevent to the child's needs.As the years have gone by i have come across many parents in similar situations to ours, scrabbling around for the little information that is out there. I have come to realise that it was pointless expecting any professional to tell me how to help my son. I expected them to give me the answers, but they knew less than i did. His repeated bouts of ear infections and glue ear since being a baby until the present day (age five and a half) have resulted in hearing problems. He has never learned to listen and so has concentration problems. His articulation is poor as he has learned to talk as he hears. His resulting speach and language delay have caused communication problems, frustration, anxiety and behaviour problems. Through the years i have met many professionals and learned little of use from most of them. All i have learned i have researched myself. I consider myself the professional on my son and no one else. This is why i am working to raise awareness of this little understood and highly underestimated medical condition that affects a huge amount of children. It is for all those parents out there who are going through what we have been through.